IAE

Other Designations: Inflatable Antenna Experiment. Class: Technology. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA/JPL.

Deployed from Spartan 207 5/20/96; test of inflatable antenna technology. Reentered May 22.

Typical orbit: 190 km circular orbit, 39 deg inclination. Associated Launch Vehicle: Shuttle.

IAE Chronology

1996 May 19 - IAE - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Perigee: 180 km (110 mi). Apogee: 201 km (124 mi). Inclination: 39.10 deg. Period: 88.30 min.
LEO. Inflatable Antenna Experiment; deployed from Spartan 207 5/20/96; test of inflatable antenna technology. Reentered May 22.

Bibliography and Further Reading

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Report (Internet Newsletter), Harvard University, Weekly, 1989 to Present. Essential internet newsletter recording worldwide weekly space events. Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

NASA GSFC Orbital Parameters, .

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